Close Reading: Night

Directions: Perform a close reading analysis for each of the following passages. Use the chart provided to guide you in analyzing all of the passage's important elements.


Passage #1 (px. 10):
THE EIGHT DAYS of Passover
The weather was sublime. My mother was busy in the kitchen. The synagogues were no longer open. People gathered in
private homes: no need to provoke the Germans.
Almost every rabbi's home became a house of prayer.
We drank, we ate, we sang. The Bible commands us to rejoice during the eight days of celebration, but our hearts were not
in it. We wished the holiday would end so as not to have to pretend.
On the seventh day of Passover, the curtain finally rose: the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community.
From that moment on, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun.
Identification and Analysis:


Elements of Style:
Diction
Carefully examine the
language of the passage.
Pay attention to the
author's diction (word
choice), including
vocabulary and words
with strong or weak
connotative meanings.

Syntax
How are words arranged
in the passage? Does the
author use simple or
complex sentences? Are
there unique uses of
fragments or run-ons?
What about structural
devices such as anaphora,
asyndeton and
polysyndeton!

Figurative Language
Identify key rhetorical
devices, such as simile,
metaphor, personification,
symbol, symbolism, and
imagery. Comment on
their effect on the passage
as a whole


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